From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problems with setting face attributes for specific frames Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:45:53 +0900 Message-ID: <877im6hdwe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191264412 10789 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2007 18:46:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:46:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu, eliz@gnu.org, hannes@saeurebad.de, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 01 20:46:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IcQHo-00048z-Og for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:46:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcQHk-0006Au-SE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:46:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcQGB-0005D5-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcQG7-00059e-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcQG7-00059O-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:44:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IcQFx-0007as-Na; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:44:37 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id E837F7FFD; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 03:44:32 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C25221A2E12; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 03:45:53 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20070621) XEmacs Lucid X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80109 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I also made a separate proposal to abolish `set-face-attribute' entirely, > along with all the other functions that operate at the same level. > That would mean abolishing `modify-face'. Presumably also `copy-face', since since aliases would surely be preferred rather than actual immutable copies of faces if you need multiple names for backward compatibility or whatever.